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The road sign in Dull, Perthshire, has become something of a tourist hotspot

After Dull twinned with Boring it was only a matter of time before Bland got in on the act.Three of the world’s most tedious-sounding villages are preparing for a week of festivities to celebrate their, well, distinctive ordinariness.

Dull, a tiny community in Perthshire, is hosting a civic reception at the local cinema, where residents will be offered the chance to exchange niceties over a few drinks — nothing too raucous — with the mayor of Bland and his delegation on Friday.

A good example of why I sometimes get up well before dawn on a weekend morning. So I can arrive at a place like this and catch that brief moment when the rising sun brings out pink and purple colors in the water…